Nancy A. (Chocoholic) reviewed The Bibliophile's Devotional: 365 Days of Literary Classics on + 291 more book reviews
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This is an exhaustive list of 365 books recommended by the author, an English professor herself. There is no Stephen King, no Jodi Picoult, no "Twilight" in this list. What there is is a list of classical favorites from "Beowulf" and Homer to Eugenides' "Middlesex". The books mentioned vary from the antiquities through the mid-2000's. Likewise, nearly every genre and every type of story has an entry here, from Latino literature, to seasonal Christmas favorites, Asian literature, Native American, Indian and even African. Some of the authors are quite well-known: Twain, Melville, Austen, and Bronte, but there are plenty of other authors and books I've not heard of before.
Each entry fills a page with the book title & author, the opening lines of the book, a brief synopsis of the plot, characters and themes, and then closes with a snippet of a review of the book from another reviewer or sometimes a quote from an interview with the author.
If there is a fault with this book, it is that at least one book description is glaringly incorrect: "Huckleberry Finn"'s synopsis has obvious faults that anyone who has read the book would know to be incorrect. I don't know if there are other book errors listed; I've not read many of the books listed here. Nonetheless I added a significant number of books to my be to-be-read pile after reading this.
Each entry fills a page with the book title & author, the opening lines of the book, a brief synopsis of the plot, characters and themes, and then closes with a snippet of a review of the book from another reviewer or sometimes a quote from an interview with the author.
If there is a fault with this book, it is that at least one book description is glaringly incorrect: "Huckleberry Finn"'s synopsis has obvious faults that anyone who has read the book would know to be incorrect. I don't know if there are other book errors listed; I've not read many of the books listed here. Nonetheless I added a significant number of books to my be to-be-read pile after reading this.
